Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1887-05-11
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ADDITIONAL NEWS.

E. A. FORD, General Passenger Agent
of the Pennsylvania lines, says that pas
senger traffic receipts for April will exceed
those Of any corresponding month in years.
And yet there 10 no indications that pas
senger tariff will be lowered.
The Ohio Republicans will hold their
state convention July 1929.
ST. PAUL wants public library of 50,-
600 volumes to begin with.
ST. JoE's boom is spreading. Two
loaded dynamite bombs were discovered in
cellar In that city recently.
THE telegraph, telephone and electric
light wires are to be placed under ground
in San Francisco.
The Wool Growers International Sheep
Shearing convention which met at st.
Louis this week. was attended by nearly
1000 delegates.
AT the sale of thoroughbred yearlings
belonging to Dixana McGratham, at Lex
ington, KY, twenty-three colts brought
&c, 900.
SEVEN persons lost their lives at bap-
tiz;ng near New Orleans this week.
The Wayne (Neb.) Gazette says that the
supply and oil stores, carpenter shops, etc.,
Of the Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis and
Omaha railroad are 10 be removed from
Omaha to Emerson, and temporary build
ings are now being erected for those pur-
poses.
The competitive tests of freight
car brakes was began a few days
ago at Burlington, Iowa, under the
auspices of the Master Car Builders asso-
citation, and will be continued for month
or six weeks. Five car brake companies
the Westinghouse, the Eaves. American,
Hanscom, and Carpenter, the latter from
Germany, have entered the contest.
An Ohio grand jury has returned indict-
ments for the four McCoys, who a few
days ago 80 brutally murdered DR.. North
Eupxt Haverhih, Scioto county.
The new union labor party claims L.
2OO, 600 members in the entire country.
NEXT winter justices of the peace will be
thicker than f-as in Omaha. Eighteen o:
them are to be elected in November, under
the old state law requiring two Justices for
each precinct.
THE Omaha Bee is responsible for the
following. which is applicable to many
cities: II Gov. Thayer's suggestions are
carried out by the commission, very few
members Of the present police force will
retain their star. If every policeman who
hangs around saloons and gambling houses
is to be dismissed, there will be great
many second hand uniforms for sale pres
emily.
Four hundred more internal revenue
licenses were issued in Iowa this year than
last year.
REV. JOHN WoLDRoN, one Of the most
widely known Roman Catholic clergymen
u the west, died this week after long ILL.,
ness. He has been pastor of st. Johns
parish In Chicago over third Of q GEN.
tury. and during that time has never had a
vacation.
The London exhibition was form ..ly
opened this week. Fully 1000 people
were present at the opening, but the great.
est number hocked to Buffalo Bills Wild
tending the opening. They could not be
induced to listen to the address Of the
Prince OF Wales.
The change Of Tom Potter from the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy system to
the Union Pacific is thought to be the
primary reason of Powderly's trip TO the
west The clouds OF gigantic strike
throughout the west are slowly collecting.
Potter's classification system it is feared
will cause trouble il introduced on the
Union Pacific lines.